tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post5810321884957531662..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: China Consul's Letter to Canadian PaperMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-87090139002624594182008-09-28T09:02:00.000+08:002008-09-28T09:02:00.000+08:00Kinmen, Fujian Province, Republic of China.Matsu, ...Kinmen, Fujian Province, Republic of China.<BR/><BR/>Matsu, Fujian Province, Republic of China.<BR/><BR/>Taipei, Taiwan Province, Republic of China.<BR/><BR/>Why are some people so bad in geography?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-2814390454053051042008-09-28T08:18:00.001+08:002008-09-28T08:18:00.001+08:00I find it interesting that the guy mentioned the C...I find it interesting that the guy mentioned the Chinese Civil War and how the KMT fled after losing. The thing is, he made no subsequent connection to China's claimed sovereignty over Taiwan in the wake of the war.<BR/><BR/>Although, if he tried to do such a thing, it would either make Taiwan look more self-administered or it would be laughably incorrect.channinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06386334271601532591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-52318405554512028052008-09-28T08:18:00.000+08:002008-09-28T08:18:00.000+08:00If you read further the article states:Everybody k...If you read further the article states:<BR/><BR/>Everybody knows, the glorious Chinese fatherland was formed, part and parcel, under the immense gravitational pressures from within the heart of a dying star, billions and billions and billions of years ago.<BR/><BR/>Only by the supreme intellect and will of our nations people, were the Chinese able to gather and cool the remaining matter and craft it into a perfect sphere with a molten interior in the benevolent wish that we could demonstrate to the heavens our mastery of predicting earthquakes. <BR/><BR/>Our nation's people invented the United States of America in 1492 and China has maintained effective administrative control over the United States from that time to the present. The policy record proves the divine correctness of this, and only serves to support the supremacy of the Chinese as a pure race of supreme beings descended from the dragon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-34061402956927134472008-09-27T21:53:00.000+08:002008-09-27T21:53:00.000+08:00Hi Michael,Although I've left Taiwan now, I still ...Hi Michael,<BR/><BR/>Although I've left Taiwan now, I still read your blog to keep up with things there. <BR/><BR/>I was having a drunken, heated discussion with a Chinese person about Taiwan yesterday (the latest of quite a few that I've had since returning to Britain) and again wished that I could point him to an online page that could (more authoritatively than me) cogently correct his historical inaccuracies and moral shortcomings. You seem to have addressed every aspect of this many times on your blog but I just wanted to make a suggestion to you that it might be useful to a lot of people who don't know very much about the subject - or whose "knowledge" is mostly wrong - if you made (or had a link to) a page that briefly explained all the main points and debunked all the main myths. What would be even better is if it were also in traditional and simplified Chinese. <BR/><BR/>It would be great to point Chinese people (outside the firewall) to easily digestible refutations of their opinions (I could even print it off and go through it with them next time I'm in such a discussion) and have a guide for people who may need a couple of minutes to find Taiwan on a world map. Otherwise they'll just look at that dreadful bbc summary or, even worse, a chinese version.<BR/><BR/>What do you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-41463899801771843452008-09-27T16:29:00.000+08:002008-09-27T16:29:00.000+08:00The fact that China has to resort to fabrication t...The fact that China has to resort to fabrication to jusitfy its desire to take Taiwan reveals its desperation. <BR/><BR/>I wonder if it told the truth: that it wants a strategic military buffer that not only protects China from attacks on its Pacific flank, but gives the growing Chinese navy control over the narrow straits, so that its subs can reach deep water safely (and effectively repel any attacks by an enemy navy).<BR/><BR/>Then again, I suppose if China told the truth, few nations would support its intent...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-76309833932734360432008-09-27T13:01:00.000+08:002008-09-27T13:01:00.000+08:00...The Chinese officials in Canada are always very....<BR/>.<BR/>.<BR/>The Chinese officials in Canada are always very vocal with their stance on Taiwan. Obnoxiously so.<BR/>.<BR/>.<BR/>.skiingkowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381159852660053893noreply@blogger.com